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http://www.ted.com Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn’t expect, as he shares evolution’s counterintuitive reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things. For a topping, try his introduction to a new theory by Matthew Hurley on why jokes are funny.
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Dennett is a good entertainer.
For expansion, you might read his many books — which are dense and not at all easygoing. TED talks aren't for expansiveness, really. They're just little bites.
And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of "other people," which gets bled of the significance we think it has and takes on instead a significance that is ludicrous, so ill-equipped are we all to envision one another's interior workings and invisible aims? Philip Roth. Let people believe what they want. Focus on yourself, this goes for both creationist and atheists.
i just laughed my friend. thanks for that.
I thought the title referred to Daniel Dennett, himself.
…I wasn't entirely disappointed.
Dogs didn't evolve from wolves, but rather the various breeds of dogs are still essentially wolves that have been altered by man's intervention and breeding for various qualities. This didn't happen to the entire population of wolves, only those that stayed close to human encampments and were eventually captured where their breeding was under man's control.
Imo, the greatest living philosopher.
That last bit was hilarious!
At 0:48 secs, Ms R Beverly Mackenzie seems to claim that humans are perfect and beautiful… they are neither… humans have many, many genetic deficiencies such that they develop many sorts of medical diseases, and many have deviant minds, so they are neither perfect, nor beautiful… and beauty is only a construct… it is an aesthetic.
(to be cont)
In fact, as I type, humans are still evolving, and our latest evolutionary accent seems to be in the area of our temporal lobes… some of us can accept our own final mortality (ie atheism) and some of us won't evolve for centuries yet.
Secondly… how do I create anything? I learn by my mistakes, as one thing that I surely know, is that I am not in possession of 'perfect wisdom'.
Nobody has walked in the room all evening, I've been here on my own, I get to 2:16 and half the family walks in. Any other time in the whole evening would have been better ffs!
That was good material. I found this because my associate came to be a lady-magnet He started attracting chicks over night. I was amazed. He acted like it was normal for a little bit. Then he told me when he was drunk. Turns out he uses the Jake Ayres Master Attraction Formula. Google it and you'll find it… He's dating a sexy chick… Lucky dick!
About as sexy as a barbed wire fence. Lets get education back an track.
aspartam is sweet, with no energy. so why it is sweet?
Fuck that intro. Just fuck it.
And the outro. Fuck that too.
I looked at all the observations but I reckon that is a high-quality movie clip. My younger brother would like to get astonishing with the ladies. He uncovered a lot from Master Attraction. (Google it.) The help and advice on the subject of getting women at nightclubs from Master Attraction got him his very first lays in 3 long years. I was really pissed though given that I heard them all.
He is kind of funny in his own dry way, and I guess you could call him sweet if you wanted too. But something disconnects in my brain when I try to call him cute or sexy. The cognitive dissonance becomes too great.
I'm sure that somewhere out there there are people who would find him cute and sexy but until presented with such people I do find the video title to be somewhat disturbingly wrong.
Now what I would like to know is how, I, some random guy, can alter myself slightly to make me a super stimuli for sexiness to the opposite sex. 😉
I read all the posts. I think this is a great clip. My older brother wants to get astonishing with the hottest girls. He began to understand a shit load from a website called Master Attraction. (Google it.) The guidance relating to seducing chicks at nightclubs in the emails coming from that website helped get got him his very first fucks in a number of yrs. I got pissed however coz I heard them all.
Shit. I’m envious of my friend. He’s been unattached permanently. By a fluke, he’s got a model to love him in weeks. How is that manageable? He laughed and said he tried the Cupid Love System (Google it!) I wish someone attractive fell for me… I really don’t recall at any time seeing him so fulfilled. Kinda makes me sick.
The chimps are total boner killers please change the slide, lol.
he brings a good point,. found this quote, "We're not sinners because we sin, We sin because we're sinners"
Daniel Dennett should be mocked, scorned, and removed from the public eye. Who is it that grants this guy an audience? He tells you that you have no free will, that honey isn't really sweet, and even goes so far as to say that hot chicks aren't really hot – and then waxes "philosphical" on what "funny" actually means. This all coming from an admittedly soulless, not funny, completely bland intellectual charlatan that couldn't get laid in a morgue.
Daniel Dennett is a very good speaker
Skip to 2:13 if you wish to ignore thinking about your religion and simply want to hear the main point.
When I first looked at this, I thought that they meant that Dan Dennett was Cute, sexy, sweet, funny. I think that young girls of any "age" would love to hug him, kiss him and sit on his lap.
I would like to add a negative but very logical note to all these discussions.
Any trait in plants, animals or human beings, that did not produce offspring died out.
In other words, If babies were not cute, humans would not be here now.
OK but couldn't he have found better examples? I mean those girls were ugly, the babies were ugly, and his joke wasn't funny, it was a plug in for some book I'll never read. I have reproduced so I don't think it's bc I find babies ugly, he just had ugly pictures.
he looks like Darwin.
I didn't get the last one about funniness…..
what does this talk have to do with procrastination?
Darwinception… a man that looks like Darwin talking about Darwin
I must have fallen off the evolutionary bandwagon at some point, because I can't stand babies.
So we were wired a certain way but the wiring is all accidental? Huh? Notice he talks nothing about love because atheists can say nothing of objective truth because that would mean there is a source of objective truth. That's why as a country we abort all the non cute babies because we are not being taught to go beyond our mere feelings and to make a choice to love.
перевод ужасный.
The title and thumbnail of the video combined make this look like a Darwinist fetish video. Lmfao.
I share this video more than any other video. It makes me sad that this had under 1 mil views and it was released in 2009.
People say there is a RACE problem. People say this RACE problem will be
solved when non-Whites pour into ALL and ONLY White countries.
People say the only solution to the RACE problem is if ALL and ONLY
White countries "assimilate," i.e., intermarry, with millions of
non-Whites.
If I tell the obvious truth about the ongoing program of GENOCIDE
against White people, Anti-Whites agree that I am a
naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-White
Blowin' me away all over the place… Bravo
Plot twist; What is Danial is the reincarnation of Darwin?
The End – Dennett: "Thank you very much" TED: wwwwwaaAAA*AAHAAAMPPAAAHHH!!!!!!!!* RIP headphone users.
Ok, Professor Dumbledore.
There's a so-called theory for a "fine-tuned universe", and according to that – babies couldn't look like anything other than they are now. Because of phylogenetic stuff, because of neural pathways, because of how molecules work. There's tons of conditions you have to change if you want to see a universe with adorable Picasso-styled babies.
As a Christian I find this very educational and I feel less ignorant. If any fellow Christians out there feels the urge to attack this gentleman simply because he’s trying to explain the world from a scientific perspective, you better change your church or educate yourself more, or both.
What’s the problem with having an almighty creator and having our brains wired in certain ways at the same time? I mean that’s one way of doing it. And if this truly is how it works, it’s still wonderful. And I do believe that the Genesis might be a super brief version of what could be a very complicated process, one that’s beyond our understanding. Can we really tell how the Lord engineered everything? Are we in such a position? You know the answer to this.
Furthermore, are you saying this is a scam simply because the Bible didn’t mention conditioning and neuroscience? Well last time I checked it didn’t talk about YouTube either.
Knowledge likes this allows us to understand the Lord’s world better. This is a plus, not something evil. Let’s not judge so fast and rely so much on our limited knowledge.
Seriously, you all sound like you’d burn him alive on a stick if we were still in the Dark Age.
Was I supposed to be offended by this? I don't know why.